Chappell Roan thinks her younger self wouldn’t be able to “register” who she is now
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Chappell Roan has revealed that she doesn’t think her younger self will be able to “register” the person she has become – see what she had to say below.
The ‘Hot To Go’ singer recently sat down with the Call Her Daddy podcast for an episode to discuss a myriad of topics. In a new clip obtained exclusively by Rolling Stone, Roan – real name Kayleigh Rose Amstutz – spoke about her growth as a person, and how her younger self would feel about her now.
She said on the matter: “I don’t even know if my young self would be able to register that as a part of me. That’s how removed… I was so, so, so opposite of me now. It just wasn’t awaken.”
Chappell Roan continued, reflecting on her personal growth and being comfortable with her sexuality among other things: “Young Kayleigh just felt so restricted because I was a problem child and so angry and so depressed and I felt like no one understood me. Now, that part of me is so alive… I just wanted to be free, but I didn’t think it would actually happen. Now that it has, it’s like she wouldn’t believe it at all. I don’t think she’d believe that this is what I do.”
The full episode is now available, you can check it out here.
Her appearance on Call Her Daddy comes shortly after the singer released the country-tinged single ‘The Giver’. Released on March 14, ‘The Giver’ marked the former NME Cover star’s first new music out since the hugely successful one-off single ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ last year. She had been steadily teasing the song for some time now, and debuted the song during her appearance on Saturday Night Live last November.
She has since shared an update on her highly anticipated sophomore album, on which ‘The Giver’ is expected to appear: “New album? Great question. We’re so beyond… so beyond far away from that, I could not even tell you.”
In a four-star review of her acclaimed debut album‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’, NME wrote: “These sharp pop moments shine brighter than some of the weaker ballads that pad out the lengthy tracklist. Yet ‘The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess’ is a display of Roan’s bold and brazen pen, where she places searing revelations alongside some deliciously cheeky choruses.”
In other news, Roan recently performed a duet of ‘Pink Pony Club’ with Elton John at his Oscars viewing party. She also recently dedicated her BRIT Award win “to trans artists, to drag queens, to fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor,” and prior to that made headlines after using her Best New Artist speech at the 67th Grammy Awards to take aim at record labels and share her past experience as a struggling new artist.
Roan’s ‘Good Luck, Babe’ was also named as NME’s best song of 2024. “With ‘Good Luck, Babe!’, Roan set out to write a ‘big anthemic pop song’. It was an unqualified success: over subtly insistent synth-pop, Roan serves up home truths to someone desperately trying to deny their queerness,” the entry read.
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